Many people agree that "it takes
a village to raise a child" be-cause of the scope of tasks required to do
so effectively. Multi-person organizations function best when each member knows
(a) what he organization is trying to do, and (b) their role in the organization - i.e. what they're responsible for. Many businesses try to
achieve those by supervisors and employees devising writ-ten job descriptions
for each co-worker to minimize confusion and disagreements and to help make
performance evaluations.

Families are "multi-person
organizations." Healthy family adults strive to maintain a high
nurturance level
by filling each member's needs well enough, often enough as they and the
en-vironment change. Filling minor kids' dynamic spectrum of de-velopmental and
special needs ("parenting") over two decades is complex and challenging.
Dedicated adults may find it helpful to compose and use written "job
descriptions" to clarify which adult is responsible for filling which needs of
each dependent child. This can be specially helpful in
divorcing
and
step
families.